Despite most severe pain and ill health, suffering high temperatures up to 104° in the night, wearing a neck brace during his stay in mandali hall, and the constant waves of pain that flowed across his face and through his eyes as he shifted in his chair to relieve the discomfort of his hip injury — having a cushion, then not having a cushion — yet Baba came each day to the hall because of Avatar's Abode to clarify his plan for the development of his place. Each day he would bring up points that he had thought of during the night and which he wanted to be included in his wishes concerning the property, which Eruch, Francis and myself wrote down each evening.
That picture of Baba suffering, of the manner in which he expressed his wishes, of the things that he emphasized, and the memories of the poignant forcefulness of his words, remain indelibly impressed upon my mind and heart.
One day, as Bill walked alongside the lift-chair carrying Baba between mandali hall and the main house, Baba, perhaps in response to Le Page's distress over Baba's physical condition, remarked, "Remember, I am God 100 percent." And he repeated this twice to him, "Remember, I am God 100 percent."
Often during the sessions in the hall, Baba would motion to Francis and Bill to go out for a smoke, sensing that they needed a break, or if Baba wished to relieve himself on his portable potty.
Francis would often go out to urinate, and Baba once commented as he walked out, "Francis is always going to the toilet. He always has to piddle."
Baba turned to Bill and remarked, "Yes, you love Francis very much, and he loves you very much — but I love you both very much more than you do each other."
Bill had been linked by Baba with Francis Brabazon as "his right hand" ever since he had found out about Baba. In 1956, when Baba first said this, he also mentioned that Robert Rouse was "Francis' left hand."
During Bill's visit in 1967, Baba released Brabazon from that order and stated, "Francis is free [of work in Australia]. Baba and Bill are bound. Australia is between Baba and Bill."
Baba instructed: "Francis will transfer Avatar's Abode to Bill who will, when the time is ripe, form a trust of which he will be chairman and turn the place over to it.